21 must-read chick lit books like The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) by Helen Hoang

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The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

By: Helen Hoang

3.94

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help he…

"A slow me is much better than a sick me"

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"This yearning for her, this craving, it's sunk so deep into me that it's part of me now. This is how Quan is now. He's crazy about this one girl."

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"I want to be the person she thought I was, a confident motherfucker who wouldn't give a shit about any of this. But I do give a shit. I want to be enough —for her, for me, for the people in my life."

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"I don't life that Priscilla blaming herself when she did all that she could, all that anyone could, really. But I guess that's how it must be when someone's standards are so impossibly high and their capacity for empathy so limited. They are cruel to others, and cruelest to themselves."

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

If you liked the chick lit plot in The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) by Helen Hoang , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Tools of Engagement (Hot & Hammered, #3)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hair, makeup, clothing, decor... everything in Bethany Castle's world is organized, planned, and st… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Tools of Engagement (Hot & Hammered, #3) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Everyone had weaknesses. They just came in different sizes and shapes."

-Tessa Bailey, Tools of Engagement (Hot & Hammered, #3)

"Expecting perfect can only lead to disappointment. Besides, it's the flaws that give a person character. That's where the beauty hides."

-Tessa Bailey, Tools of Engagement (Hot & Hammered, #3)

"In a hardware store, a man only had to drop the barest hint about his project and dudes started pouring out of the aisles touting their best advice. This was a ritual that saved men from having to ac…"

-Tessa Bailey, Tools of Engagement (Hot & Hammered, #3)

Cover of Love Her or Lose Her (Hot & Hammered, #2) by Tessa Bailey

2. Love Her or Lose Her (Hot & Hammered, #2)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.62

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Love Her or Lose Her (Hot & Hammered, #2) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.60

Format: 400 pages, ebook

A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle’s fami… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The quiet got too loud once you'd come and gone."

-Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1)

"She licked her lips in slow motion. At least thats how it happened in his head"

-Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1)

"I'll make sure she knows every day that she's the air I breathe. That's a promise."

-Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1)

"The innocent memory of Georgie lying on his bed and mumbling that she needed Dale took on a whole new meaning."

-Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1)

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4. Check & Mate

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destru… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Check & Mate book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"— Потому что, когда я с тобой, Мэллори, все по-другому. Когда я с тобой, я больше хочу играть, чем выигрывать."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Because when I´m with you, Mallory, everything is different. When I´m with you, I want to play more than I want to win."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Nolan?' 'Hmm?' 'Why did you come to Vegas?' His fingers tighten around mine. my heart cartwheels. 'Mallory. I came because you did."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"I think about a deserted chessboard. Only the white king on it, standing on the home square. Alone, untethered, safe from threats. Free to roam."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

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5. Love, Theoretically

By: Ali Hazelwood

4.11

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.90

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with … read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I just…have this pretty intense need to make sure everyone knows you’re very fucking important. Okay? Could you kindly just go along with it?"

-Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

"She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison."

-Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down (Big Shots, #1)

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7. Not in Love

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science. Rue Siebert might not ha… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Not in Love book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'd been an odd child, then an odd teenager. Then I'd become, maybe as a result, maybe unavoidably, an odd adult."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'd never felt more beautiful than when he looked at me. Like I was the final prototype of someone's entire fantasy life."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube re…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'm going to want to see you every day. I'm going to learn more dishes and pack your lunch and write cute little notes on it. I'm going to ask you if you want to sleep at your place or mine and alway…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

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8. Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)

By: Talia Hibbert

4.10

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes… read more

Similar categories in Talia Hibbert's Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Read like your book is burning."

-Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)

"You're not just my sunshine; you're the sun."

-Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)

"Panic is for the underprepared, the out-of-control, and the fatally inconsistent."

-Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)

"I’m going to stay and I’m going to love you and I’m going to try. You taught me how much that matters."

-Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)

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9. Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

By: Talia Hibbert

4.01

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake … read more

Similar categories in Talia Hibbert's Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He held on to you, not enough that you felt suffocated, but more than enough to make it clear you should stay right there. With him. Because he wanted you to."

-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

"She was wearing her glasses now, at least, along with an enormous pink dressing gown and a pair of equally enormous bunny-ear slippers. The slippers surprised him until he remembered that Chloe used …"

-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

"He always stumbled over that part. Not because it hurt—although it really fucking did—but because it seemed so…small. So simple and flat and anticlimactic a phrase for something as monumental as deat…"

-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

"It didn't last long—I wasn't famous enough. But it felt like forever to me. So now, I guess, I'm a bit... private." That wasn't the full story, just a fraction of it. Because the press had left Zaf a…"

-Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)

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10. Stuck with You (The STEMinist Novellas, #2)

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.57

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing like a little rivalry between scientists to take love to the next level. Mara, Sadie, an… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Stuck with You (The STEMinist Novellas, #2) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Because such is the way of the universe: it's full of bad, sad, upsetting, unfair, enraging circumstances..."

-Ali Hazelwood, Stuck with You (The STEMinist Novellas, #2)

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11. The Long Game (The Long Game, #1)

By: Elena Armas

3.59

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a childre… read more

Similar categories in Elena Armas's The Long Game (The Long Game, #1) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The True Love Experiment

By: Christina Lauren

4.11

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hol… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He is the stillness to my storm, the shadow to my bright sunlight, the Styles to my Harry."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"...tight, hyperaware realization that I want him close to me every second of every day from here on out."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"I'm consumed by a distracting ache, a sharp want, a desperation for this thing I already have in my arms."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"Romance isn't gratuitous bodice ripping. It can be, there's nothing wrong with that, but in the end, romance isn't about the fantasy of being wealthy or beautiful or even being tied to the bed."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

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13. Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A down-on-her-luck Napa heiress suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your tits look insane."

-Tessa Bailey, Unfortunately Yours (A Vine Mess, #2)

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14. Secretly Yours (A Vine Mess, #1)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A steamy new rom-com about a starchy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every tur… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Secretly Yours (A Vine Mess, #1) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’d dim her glow. I’d change her, and I would hate myself for it."

-Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours (A Vine Mess, #1)

"And as a queen of avoidance, she would rather not know. Sneaking around for the rest of her life sounded so much easier."

-Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours (A Vine Mess, #1)

"But he found himself wondering what it might be like to fill that role for Hallie. In another life, obviously. A full-time giver of Hallie smiles."

-Tessa Bailey, Secretly Yours (A Vine Mess, #1)

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15. Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)

By: Talia Hibbert

3.80

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but no… read more

Similar categories in Talia Hibbert's Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am not hurt,"

-Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)

"Excuse me, universe,"

-Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)

"she saw him as poetry"

-Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)

"Disturbing things always seemed to happen on Tuesdays."

-Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)

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16. Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3)

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.58

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

It will take the frosty terrain of the Arctic to show these rival scientists that their chemistry b… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wanted to stop feeling as though I were rotting in my own aimlessness, and I wanted my head to stop spinning all the time."

-Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3)

"Rejections are the bread and butter of all academic journeys. [..,] The good thing is, the more rejections you get, the easier they are to swallow."

-Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero (The STEMinist Novellas, #3)

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17. Love on the Brain

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in … read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Love on the Brain book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"»a murder of dragons."

-Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

"I call them the Quasimotoes."

-Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

"I will slay a murder of dragons for you."

-Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

"You were always in my head. And I could never get you out."

-Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

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18. Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)

By: Tessa Bailey

3.91

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he's a … read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you ever get so happy, you can barely stand it?"

-Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)

"I've never even had you, and your body haunts mine."

-Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)

"Doesn’t feel like enough to say I love you at this point."

-Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)

"She was Eve in the Garden of Eden, and she'd just taken a bite from the apple."

-Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2)

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19. The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

By: Helen Hoang

3.94

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help he… read more

Similar categories in Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A slow me is much better than a sick me"

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"This yearning for her, this craving, it's sunk so deep into me that it's part of me now. This is how Quan is now. He's crazy about this one girl."

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"I want to be the person she thought I was, a confident motherfucker who wouldn't give a shit about any of this. But I do give a shit. I want to be enough —for her, for me, for the people in my life."

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

"I don't life that Priscilla blaming herself when she did all that she could, all that anyone could, really. But I guess that's how it must be when someone's standards are so impossibly high and their…"

-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

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20. Under One Roof (The STEMinist Novellas, #1)

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.66

Format: 112 pages, ebook

A scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis – it leads to combustion. Ma… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Under One Roof (The STEMinist Novellas, #1) book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Soulmate Equation

By: Christina Lauren

4.00

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convin… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Soulmate Equation book and Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My social boner is pretty limp right now."

-Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

"I find it soothing that numbers don’t lie."

-Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

"she was absolutely the happiest aspect of my childhood."

-Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

"Fondness warmed his gaze from the inside out, as if he was seeing exactly the person he wanted to see."

-Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

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3.74

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Tessa Bailey

3.62

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Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered, #1)

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3.60

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Emily Henry

4.27

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